A Different Life – Live It Up!
Featuring Pebbles

So an eleven year old boy gets an assignment at school from his teacher to write about his neighborhood. Next day in class, his turn comes ‘round, he stands in front of the class and he starts to talk…

VERSE 1
[Lungelo starts…]
Well I live on a street that just never got named
So we’ve all come to know it as “Three”
[Zubz comes in…]
In a hood where the houses kinda all look the same
My hood we’ve come to know it as “B”
To the left of our house, our neighbors moved out
Cos their parents died of HIV
Since their children were about my age they’re no doubt
With their grandparents out in PE
Further down there’s the fam we don’t quite understand
Always arguing at night when we’re asleep
Next to them there’s the guys who moved up in life
Apparently cos of BEE
And across from them there’s this stock that’s been
Selling liquor since Mandela got free
All the fathers in our road gather there to unload
And watch soccer on DSTV

CHORUS
Yeah I see what you show on TV
But this Life is a whole different thing to us and
Yeah I read what you print in magazines
But this Life is a whole different thing to us and
Yeah I see what they screen in movies
But this Life is a whole different thing to us and
We came too far to give it up
This is our life and we plan to live it up!

VERSE 2
To our right there’s the girl who passed matric
But couldn’t afford to go to UCT
She’s pregnant now by the daddy at number 6
Who’s the pastor out at UBC
Next to her over the fence, the guy we’re all convinced
Jacks cars in the CBD
Had a Benz on the 2nd, a Beamer on the 7th
Last week he drove the new TT
Further back to the left lives this rapper who gets
Laughed at cos he catches taxis
Across from him lives a cop that’s been fired
They exposed him on 3rd Degree
Further down is the church where we all sing a verse
Of praise every Sunday of each week
Cos even though there’s wrong here it’s still our home
Which we’d all choose to build and not leave (for real)

CHORUS (with Pebbles)

PEBBLES
Cos this life that we’re forced to live
Is far from a fantasy
And the truth is that here where we live
Here in our reality
Things may not come easy but in our minds
We can choose to be free
Choose to be free!

CHORUS x2